Weird cases: A case, or nine, of whiskey

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The King v Forty Nine Casks of Brandy and a trial from Ireland that wasn’t too taxing for the judge to offer an opinion

The doctor and poet Oliver St. John Gogarty is credited with the epigram that
“there is no such thing as a small whiskey”.

In an unusual case in Scottdale, Pennsylvania, prosecutors are alleging that
John Saunders succumbed to the temptations of whiskey in a big way – by
drinking 52 bottles of it that belonged to his employer. The bottles were a
century old and valued at $102,400.

Mr Saunders was a live-in caretaker at a large Georgian mansion when it was
bought by Patricia Hill in 2012. She purchased the building, which had been
owned by the coal magnate J.P.